About Lesa's Book Critiques
| I have been a library manager/administrator for over 30 years, in Ohio, Florida, Arizona, and, now, Indiana. Library Journal Mystery Reviewer of the Year 2018. 2022 Raven Award recipient from Mystery Writers of America. Recipient of the 2018 David Thompson Memorial Special Service Award from Bouchercon Board. Winner of the 2011 Arizona Library Association Outstanding Library Service Award. I am a mystery columnist for Library Journal, Mystery Readers Journal, and ReadertoReader.com. Author of the “Mystery Fiction” chapter in Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests (7th ed.) Winner of the 2009 and 2010 Spinetingler Awards for Best Reviewer. |
Recent Posts
Fighting Edge by Margaret Mizushima
Fighting Edge may be my favorite of Margaret Mizushima's Timber Creek K-9 mysteries. Although the story becomes personal to Timber Creek K-9 officer, Deputy Mattie Walker, this one is a more straightforward police procedural than some of the other stories in the...
A Treacherous Tale by Elizabeth Penney
A Treacherous Tale is the second in Elizabeth Penney's Cambridge Bookshop series. While I want to like this series featuring an American who joins her mother and Aunt Violet to run the family bookstore in Cambridge, England, I'm afraid I'm not a fan of the female main...
Why You Should Read Children’s Books…
The title was so long, I couldn't even put it in the title line of the post. Katherine Rundell's nonfiction title is Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. This edition from 2026 is an update of the 2019 edition, and it is updated...